Data released not long ago showed that in the first three quarters of this year, China’s software and information technology services industry is running in a good situation, software business income 982.81 billion yuan, up 10.8%; total profit of 1162.1 billion yuan, an increase of 11.2%, showing that in recent years the development of the software industry has been gratifying. As of 2023, there are more than 38,000 enterprises above the scale of the software industry, the supply capacity of basic software continues to strengthen, industrial software is getting better under the dual stimulation of policy and market, the level of software infrastructure is further improved, the application scene is more abundant, and a large-scale software engineer team with rich technical experience has been formed.

However, against the developed countries in the software industry, the development of China’s software industry still has obvious shortcomings. First, the discipline and basic research power is still not strong, the software industry to promote the iterative upgrading of the root technology research and development capabilities are weak. Secondly, the scale of advantageous enterprises in the software industry is expanding, but the international competitiveness and the right to speak in the field of standards need to be improved. Third, the resources and capabilities related to the development of the software industry are distributed in different systems, industries and fields, and a systematic breakthrough capability has yet to be formed.

To promote the software industry and fast development, we must have a “root and branch” strength, inventory and solidify the material and technical foundation of the software industry development, explore and clarify the underlying logic of governance to promote the development of the software industry.

The focus of the “inventory” is on the high-end talents, root technology and software infrastructure required for the development of the software industry. Coordinate the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talents in software industry-related fields, build new scenarios of science and education integration, industry-education fusion, and industry-university-research integration, promote interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary construction, explore new modes of cultivating industry-leading talents and composite talents, and thickly cultivate fertile soil for high-end talents in the software industry. Invest in research and development of root technologies for the future development of the software industry. As the Android system for Android phones, windows operating system for PC computers, the root technology is the software industry “prairie fire” of the “spark”, we must accelerate the scientific research paradigm change, scientific research and organizational innovation and technological breakthrough mode re-engineering, cultivate and develop the software industry. It is necessary to accelerate the change of scientific research paradigm, innovation of scientific research organization and technological breakthroughs, and to cultivate and develop the root technology system of the software industry. Accelerate the layout and construction of software infrastructure such as networks, computing power and applications, and make efforts to improve the level of open design and service efficiency of the facilities, taking into account the needs of software enterprises and social software developers.

The key to “getting to the bottom of the matter” is to identify and crack the bottlenecks in the development of the software industry and realize efficient governance. The development of the software industry is a complex systematic process that requires close collaboration among enterprises, users, universities and institutes, government departments and social organizations, as well as basic research, technology research and development, product and service integration, data aggregation, scenario empowerment, standards development, infrastructure construction and other activities. First, we should promote the formation of an open innovation ecosystem conducive to the development of the software industry, take major industry applications as a traction, promote the software industry upstream of electronic components, computers, network equipment, basic software, both “hard and soft”, midstream application software development and services, and the blossoming of downstream software service applications, to form the ecological competitiveness of the supply of high-end software services. The ecological competitiveness of supply. In e-commerce, payment and other industries with fundamental advantages, we will accelerate the cultivation of head enterprises that can directly face competition in the global market. Secondly, we will face the whole life cycle of software enterprise development, integrate resources and capabilities from all aspects, and build a comprehensive empowerment system including facilities, platforms, data, services, capital and scenarios, so as to boost the growth of specialized and new enterprises in the software industry. Thirdly, we will capture and study the “weak signals” of the evolution of cutting-edge technologies, pay close attention to the new changes in the interactive interface between technology supply and market demand in the software industry, aim at the “technological blind zones” where the market may fail, but which have great growth potential, and design and launch major special projects to carry out organized, strategic and in-depth development of the software industry. We will design and launch major special projects, carry out organized, strategic and in-depth technology research and development layout, and implement key core technologies in a coordinated manner to expand the incremental market space.

Software industry is not “soft”, it is a powerful guarantee of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, is the key foundation of the modern industrial system, but also the focus of global scientific and technological and industrial competition. As long as we can deeply understand the logic of its technological evolution and the law of market development, the “root and branch” into practice, we can certainly promote the software industry and rapid development.